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This chapter brings attention to the core findings and propositions of the book. It makes a case for integrating research on everyday peace, everyday conflict, and everyday resistance. From the perspective of people’s lived experiences, these are interconnected in many ways. Core findings related to this integrated analysis of violent conflict, peace, and resistance are the social construction of grievance; the role of people’s action; the social capital for everyday peace; the role of families and intergenerational relationships; and the dimensions of power and resistance within peace and conflict. A recap on the findings and the research journey leads to a reflection on what everyday peace looks like around us in the academic environment, whether peace research matters, and how we can take action to make a difference through our work.
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Barter, “Unarmed Forces: Civilian Strategy in Violent Conflicts”.
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See Chapter 6 on local people’s action.
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Gurr, Why Men Rebel.
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See, for example: Carla Suarez, “‘Living between Two Lions’: Civilian Protection Strategies during Armed Violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12, no. 3 (2017); Krzysztof Krakowski, “Resisting Displacement amid Armed Conflict: Community-Level Conditions that Make People More Likely to Stay,” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12, no. 3 (2017); Shane J. Barter, “Civilian Strategy Across Southeast Asia,” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12, no. 3 (2017); Benjamin R. Naimark-Rowse, “Surviving Success: Nonviolent Rebellion in Sudan,” Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12, no. 3 (2017); Oliver, “Nudging Armed Groups: How Civilians Transmit Norms of Protection”.
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Iñiguez De Heredia, Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-Making: Insights from 'Africa's World War'.
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See, for example: Humphreys and Weinstein, “Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War”; Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence; Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador.
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See also: Stoll, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala; Kriger, Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices; Arjona, “Civilian Resistance to Rebel Governance”.
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Anderson and Wallace, Opting Out of War: Strategies to Prevent Violent Conflict. Krakowski, “Resisting Displacement amid Armed Conflict: Community-Level Conditions that Make People More Likely to Stay”.
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For example: Wilmer, The Social Construction of Man, the State, and War: Identity, Conflict, and Violence in Former Yugoslavia; Arman and Stuart, “Hate Narratives and Ethnic Conflict”; Gallegher, “My Neighbour, My Enemy: The Manipulation of Ethnic Identity and the Origins and Conduct of War in Yugoslavia”; Frances Stewart, Graham K Brown, and Luca Mancini, “Why Horizontal Inequalities Matter: Some Implications for Measurement,” (2005).
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See, for example: Anderson and Wallace, Opting Out of War: Strategies to Prevent Violent Conflict; Kaplan, Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves; Krakowski, “Resisting Displacement amid Armed Conflict: Community-Level Conditions that Make People More Likely to Stay”.
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Orjuela, The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding: Civil Society in War-Torn Sri Lanka.
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Masullo J., The Power of Staying Put. Nonviolent Resistance against Armed Groups in Colombia; Kaplan, Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves.
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See, for example: Baaz and Stern, “Whores, Men, and Other Misfits: Undoing ‘Feminization’ in the Armed Forces in the DRC”; Baaz and Stern, “Fearless Fighters and Submissive Wives”.
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McGee, “Invisible Power and Visible Everyday Resistance in the Violent Colombian Pacific”.
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Brian Bourke, “Positionality: Reflecting on the Research Process,” The Qualitative Report 19, no. 33 (2014): 1.
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For example: Berents, “An Embodied Everyday Peace in the Midst of Violence”; Anderson and Wallace, Opting Out of War: Strategies to Prevent Violent Conflict; Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador; Stoll, Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala.
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Primitivo Cabanes Ragandang, “What Are They Writing For? Peace Research as an Impermeable Metropole,” Peacebuilding (2021): 1–13.
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Anderson and Wallace, Opting Out of War: Strategies to Prevent Violent Conflict.
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Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, The Liberation of the Intellect: Neohumanism (Kolkata: Ananda Marga Publications, 1982).
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Carrer, M. (2022). Conclusion: The Extraordinary of the Ordinary in Times of Violence. In: How People Respond to Violence. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11342-0_9
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